Latest Explosions News

Russia's top investigative agency is investigating shooting and explosions at Moscow concert hall as a terrorist attack

Mar. 22, 2024 15:11 PM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top investigative agency is investigating shooting and explosions at Moscow concert hall as a terrorist attack.

Russia's top security agency says there are dead, wounded at a Moscow concert hall ablaze after shooting, explosions

Mar. 22, 2024 14:38 PM EDT
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top security agency says there are dead, wounded at a Moscow concert hall ablaze after shooting, explosions.

2 men arrested over an Irish gas station explosion that killed 10 in 2022

Mar. 22, 2024 11:15 AM EDT

LONDON (AP) — Two men were arrested Friday in connection with a gas station explosion in 2022 that killed 10 people and tore apart the heart of a village in northwestern Ireland, police said. The blast shattered Creeslough, County Donegal, a village of 400 near Ireland’s rugged...

Woman's body found in rubble of Utah house explosion

Mar. 20, 2024 14:08 PM EDT

AMERICAN FORK, Utah (AP) — A woman's body was found in rubble following a pre-dawn explosion on Wednesday that destroyed a duplex house in northcentral Utah, authorities said. The explosion was reported just before 6 a.m. in a residential area of American Fork. Officials said the...

An explosion in a coal mine in southwest Pakistan kills 12 miners while 8 are rescued

Mar. 20, 2024 03:23 AM EDT

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — An explosion inside a coal mine in southwest Pakistan killed 12 miners while eight were rescued, an official said Wednesday. The bodies of the dead were all recovered after the overnight collapse in Harnai, a district in the Baluchistan province, a mine...

Chinese city officials issue a rare apology after authorities harass journalists on live TV

Mar. 14, 2024 06:45 AM EDT

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — City officials in eastern China apologized to local journalists after authorities were shown pushing them and trying to obstruct reporting from the site of a deadly explosion, in a rare acknowledgment of state aggression against journalists. The city of Sanhe,...

Lebanese, French officials float a plan to rebuild Beirut port nearly 4 years after huge explosion

Mar. 13, 2024 08:24 AM EDT

BEIRUT (AP) — Three and a half years after hundreds of tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate ignited at the Beirut port, setting off one of the world’s biggest non-nuclear explosions, Lebanese and French officials put forward a plan for reconstruction and reorganization of the port...

Chinese state media say an explosion has killed one person and injured 22 in a building outside Beijing

Mar. 12, 2024 23:00 PM EDT
BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say an explosion has killed one person and injured 22 in a building outside Beijing.

Massive explosion in Pittsburgh area home kills man and woman; cause under investigation

Mar. 12, 2024 22:29 PM EDT

CRESCENT, Pa. (AP) — A massive explosion killed two people and destroyed a house in the Pittsburgh area near the Ohio River, authorities said Tuesday. Aerial images from the scene in Crescent Township in the northwest Pittsburgh suburbs showed smoking ruins with the structure...

Michigan residents urged not to pick up debris from explosive vaping supplies fire that killed 1

Mar. 08, 2024 23:16 PM EST

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities investigating a fire and explosions that rocked a suburban Detroit building filled with vaping industry supplies, killing one man as gas canisters soared up to 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) away, urged residents Friday not to pick up any debris because they...